Reading Shaver’s Creek : : Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest /

Reading Shaver’s Creek : : Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest / / ed. by Ian Marshall.

What does it mean to know a place? What might we learn about the world by returning to the same place year after year? What would a long-term record of such visits tell us about change and permanence and our place in the natural world? This collection explores these and related questions through a s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bonta, Marcia,
Branch, Michael P.,
Davis, Todd,
Fallon, Katie,
Gessner, David,
Inglesby, Hannah,
Lane, John,
Mahan, Carolyn,
Marshall, Ian,
Marshall-McKelvey, Jacy,
Taylor, David,
Warren, Julianne Lutz,
Weidensaul, Scott,
HerausgeberIn:
Marshall, Ian,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Keystone Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.) :; 8 illustrations/1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Reading the Forested Landscape
  • Site 1 Twin Bridges
  • On Orange Teeth and Busy Beavers
  • Dams and Lushness
  • The Insistence of Forests
  • In Search of Signs
  • Site 2 The Sawmill
  • The Mill and the Hemlocks
  • Looking into the Past
  • Nothing Remains the Same
  • The Saw (Perpetual) Mill
  • Site 3 The Chestnut Orchard
  • Which Side Are You On?
  • Reflections on Ecology from the Chestnut Grove
  • The Chestnut Plantation
  • Almost Lost
  • Site 4 The Dark Cliffy Spot
  • The Dark Cliffy Place
  • Song for the Unnamed Creek
  • Naming a Place, Placing a Name
  • Reflections on Ecology at the Dark Cliffy Spot
  • Site 5 The Bluebird Trail
  • Battleground
  • Plotlines, Transitions, and Ecotones
  • Caught in the Web
  • A New Sound
  • Site 6 Lake Perez
  • The Lake on Ice
  • Wet Earth
  • Spring Melt
  • Lake Perez: Reflections
  • Fog on Lake Perez
  • Site 7 The Lake Trail
  • Clockwise Around the Lake
  • Circumambulating the Lake
  • The Work of Walking
  • A Place for Exuberance
  • A Little Quiet, Please
  • Site 8 The Raptor Center
  • Earning Intimacy at the Raptor Center
  • Eagle Acquaintances
  • The Raptor (Eye) Center
  • I Remember a Bird
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors

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